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The amazing absorbing boy

"Both familiar and strange, this story of a large Canadian city seen through the wide eyes of a naive and inexperienced young immigrant wise in the culture of comic books is both hilarious and heartbreaking. Samuel is just 17 when his mother dies and he is called to live with the father he has only heard of. He leaves his village in Trinidad and flies to Toronto, where he finds his father living in a place called Regent Park. Samuel is lonely in this "big mall of a country," but he has his memories of superheroes his mentors to guide him, including the memory of an unusual friend who was two superheroes in one, as he sets out to explore what Toronto has to offer."--Publisher.

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  • ""Both familiar and strange, this story of a large Canadian city seen through the wide eyes of a naive and inexperienced young immigrant wise in the culture of comic books is both hilarious and heartbreaking. Samuel is just 17 when his mother dies and he is called to live with the father he has only heard of. He leaves his village in Trinidad and flies to Toronto, where he finds his father living in a place called Regent Park. Samuel is lonely in this "big mall of a country," but he has his memories of superheroes his mentors to guide him, including the memory of an unusual friend who was two superheroes in one, as he sets out to explore what Toronto has to offer."--Publisher."@en
  • "Both familiar and strange, this story of a large Canadian city seen through the wide eyes of a naive and inexperienced young immigrant ' wise in the culture of comic books ' is both hilarious and heartbreaking. Samuel is just 17 when his mother dies and he is called to live with the father he has only heard of. He leaves his village in Trinidad and flies to Toronto, where he finds his father living in a place called Regent Park. Samuel is lonely in this "big mall of a country," but he has his memories of superheroes ' his mentors ' to guide him, including the memory of an unusual friend who was two superheroes in one, as he sets out to explore what Toronto has to offer."
  • "A Trinidadian teen moves to Toronto to stay with his father after his mother dies."
  • ""Trapped in the big city, far away from his tropical island home, Samuel feels like an outsider, like he slipped into another dimension. People are too quiet in this mall of a country, so as his new life unfolds he learns to make his own rules and to conjure a reality from the pages of his favourite comics."--P. [4] of cover."

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  • "Electronic books"
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fantasy fiction"

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  • "The amazing absorbing boy"
  • "The amazing absorbing boy"@en

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